The Virtue That Takes Virtue to the Next Level

[@rosemarycooper1572]

I love that saying that God gives us gifts and we use them to make a gift for Him. Father Mike I love your enthusiasm!

[@godsstrength7129]

This is why we should fear God and nothing else. Becoming magnanimous requires us to be courageous and voluntarily choose the hard path.

[@quemsereu2009]

Well said

[@Littlemermaid17]

Grateful to live in a era where we have such easy access to excellent Catholic content 🥰🥰🥰 praise God.

[@maysant2724]

Is a face account 👇🏻 denounce

[@maysant2724]

@@fr.mikeschmitz7939 Is fake!

[@JamesTheJocund]

Hallelujah

[@hannahnymous]

This was my biggest struggle as a Catholic. I used to believe that desiring and pursuing great things is a sin. They said Christian life is an adventure and so you must give up your desires and follow God's will always. But in effect, this made me feel stucked and depressed because I thought having a dream is sinful. "The world is bad" "give up all worldly desires" "happiness cannot be found in this life" mentality that so many Catholics possess is just negative and depressing. I suffered depression and anxiety because of that way of thinking. It felt like the only way to God is to enter a convent and pray all day while waiting for your death. Thank God I stumbled upon the book, The Power of Positive Thinking. It was written by a Protestant Pastor Norman Vincent Peale and it helped me realize that God wants all of His children to be successful, to shine, to be excellent, and to be joyful in this life. Our Lord Jesus said He came so that we may have life and have it abundantly. Regardless of our circumstances, we should be happy and grateful for we know that God loves us, God is always with us, and God is in control. Knowing this truth made me feel more grateful, energized, and hopeful for the future. I want to thrive and be excellent so God will be proud of me and I will be capable to help others. I hope Catholics will put more emphasis on the Virtue of Magnanimity and cultivating a positive mindset.

[@parmiggianoreggie-ano1832]

I needed this. God gifted me with many great talents and I often waste them with false humilty out of fear of failing... I want to stretch towards greatness, a big thank you for God! :P

[@ItsViolaRose]

In other news I love your username

[@parmiggianoreggie-ano1832]

@@ItsViolaRose Are you italian? ;P The joke is better here in Italy :P

[@lettymichoacan1348]

Wow I love what I just read

[@ItsViolaRose]

@@parmiggianoreggie-ano1832 by culture yes but by birth no 💞

[@skajs426]

These are great words that define many of our follies. Thank you brother 🙌🏽

[@nicolasc2247]

Thank you, Father! Glory be to God in the highest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@nicolasc2247]

@@fr.mikeschmitz7939 Your profile is not actually Fr. Mike Schmitz... How can you be trusted

[@jasmintorino6129]

FYI, I think the reply is from an imposter. I also received the same message from 'Father Mike' but I had doubts because it sounded unlike him. Scammer.

[@nicolasc2247]

@@jasmintorino6129 You're right

[@maysant2724]

@@nicolasc2247 I denunced the face account and KZbin doesn't delete this face account still , what's happening. Please denounce this account

[@maysant2724]

@@fr.mikeschmitz7939 Is fake!

[@BombshellArtist]

for my brother - Adam Sibley- passes this past Sunday 9-26-84 - 8-11-24. I will be doing this! Before seeing this- I slept good today, for the first time since he passed. Thank you for this message! I know he made it home.

[@MadisonJarboe]

Pusillanimity - never heard that one before. A great concept to keep in mind.

[@Elysreine]

He must become greater; I must become less. ❤🧡💛💚💙💜

[@estherpalazuelosrodriguez5950]

Lovely lecture, Father. Thank you so much!

[@tavialessor9569]

Jard to follow until you said Gods gift to you is who you are and who you become is our gift back to him.

[@ruthnoelmarie...9061]

Alleluia. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@LostArchivist]

Oh God, do grant us many magmanimous Saints. Through our Blessed Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, Who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, now and forever. Amen.

[@sharkie8182]

Father mike schmitz you've gotten me though alot thank you

[@TheNarrowGate101]

‘My Soul magnifies the Lord! ‘

[@oneworldonehome]

"Qualities that are required for Knowledge to emerge-such as stillness, patience, discernment, openness, restraint, compassion and affinity. These are great virtues, and they are fundamental to living a genuine life." *Wisdom from the Greater Community, Book 1, Chapter 6: Discernment*

[@oneworldonehome]

@@AConsumer999 True, it's not a Christian resource but I believe that all the great faiths have a common Source and purpose so I don't have a problem sharing this with you. The book is free online for all too read by the way.

[@marie-rienne]

Thank you God

[@kerwinfernandes9583]

God bless you Father as always and the team and your families 🙂🙏🏼❤️

[@antoniettacorsi7766]

Hi Fr. Mike. I live alone listening/watching your videos is like you are company. God Bless You! We need faithful priests like you.

[@emiliosanchez9406]

This is such a needed virtue in my life.

[@angelaartist7091]

Here we go, God's speaking to me again! He wants me to give up everything for him and in a sense become poor i havent even looked at this gift of poverty out of fear, but i need to do it... I should trust God and im sorry,i need to do this.

[@-gina1114]

AWSEOME!!! AND INSPIRING!!! video Father Mike!!! Thank you so much!!! and Thank you so much Ascension Presents!!! God bless you!!!

[@rosejimenez9166]

Greetings Father Mike being educated thru a Catholic Faith got me thru some really challenging times as a minor child and thru my adult hood. I have always respected Priests and Nuns and admired their discipline and love for God. In a world of greed I seen and been thru alot growing up heard war stories seen soldiers depressed and the best advice I could give was to say a prayer everyday talk to God in private go to mass when feeling lonely. I respect commandments and laws. I respect people and that we are not made the same but with different cultures and skills. You are from my generation and enjoy hearing you explain the bible because some men don't have a clue. In the bible it does speak about a shepard that knows how to lead its sheep.

[@ShaneMagee05]

Thank you.

[@נדבבנימינילוינשטיין]

Thank you very much. Love from the Holy Land

[@quemsereu2009]

Im very guilty of false humility.. i put myself down

[@dragonfruit6532]

Praying for you!

[@litzyr3920]

Please pray for me. I am praying for the gift of faith because I did not take care of it and “gave it away”. But I remember what it was like to love God, now I am lost.

[@lovelast4evergemma508]

Praying for you my friend JESUS reaches down to us when we are drowning look up and grab on tight to His Strong Arms. He will pull you up and give you Life's Breath. Much Love✝️❤️

[@bethhoward1982]

God gave me the gift of singing. I had been cantoring for our church until COVID hit. I’m waiting to do this again. Our church is open, but I’m in my early sixties and am fearful of cantoring now. This video has moved me to pray more about this. I truly get so much pleasure singing for the Lord.

[@Deperuse]

Thanks Father! You reminded me that I have a relic from Fr. Solanus Casey from a while ago! (I grew up in Windsor which is next to Detroit so...) Thanks to you, magnanimity is much more clear now.

[@KyzzKyss]

Thank you Fr Mike.

[@maysant2724]

Is a face account

[@maysant2724]

@@fr.mikeschmitz7939 is a face account

[@YouAdam2]

Thank you Father Mike

[@oryimangabriel660]

I struggle with timidity even when I know I'm capable. You referred to it as small mindedness. Thank you for your insight. I pray to God for the grace of magnanimity of the soul. God bless!

[@Paul-ml4fk]

Grant me magnanimity Jesus

[@karensmith5526]

This kept popping up in my feed. I finally acknowledged that was for a reason. I watched it and yes, I needed to see it. Humility is not timidity. The gifts from God. So many good and important things in this lesson

[@TMNTLeague]

Thank you Fr. Mike.... I pray our holy advocate Mary will continue to guide us... and pray for us and with us.

[@albertinadumea4055]

Many new people at work are saying to me that I m a very patient person and they feel at peace with me. I' ll strive to be a more patient one! 🤗🤗 Hope I understand well the message! God bless!

[@yourday143]

Thank you, Lord for your gifts. Thank you, for Fr. Mike. Thank you, Fr. Mike for being a blessing. God bless you!

[@irene_irenaeus_ihs]

May God bless you for the love and truth this video speaks. Thanks for keeping on doing them. Thanks for Ascension Presents. Let's keep on the road to be saints. Let's pray for each other

[@kareliaj]

I started to listening your messages and not only help me with my faith but is also helping me with my English. Thank you Father Mike and May God bless you always!!

[@bernathabah9710]

Wow. Powerful and Inspiring. Thank you Fr. Mike. May God bless you.

[@robinyuan9472]

so much encouragement! I've always known that we are to work hard and honour God, but this, this puts it clearly. Magnanimity! so good!

[@chenkeith7272]

Hope that all these talks would be compiled into a book

[@maryobodo2241]

No one speaks as fast as father Mike- I struggle to keep up!

[@drumsandcymbals8779]

I watch 2x speed get on my level

[@edebevictor9221]

You can control the speed by clicking on the three dots at the top right corner of your screen.

[@maryobodo2241]

@@edebevictor9221 wow- didn't know that, thanks

[@tavialessor9569]

The idea of giving God a gift is something ive searched for my whole life. What will he take from me what can i give to him that he needs.

[@beaconoftruth1990]

This is exactly what I needed to hear. Thank you for always being timely, spirit led and on point Fr Mike. As a discerning seminarian, I truly appreciate this and ask you all to keep me in prayer!

[@maysant2724]

@@fr.mikeschmitz7939 is a fake account!!!

[@ileniakricensky3403]

Thank you Father Mike and may God continue to bless you. I will strive to be humble by acknowledging the truth.

[@captainquillgaming2356]

Love you Father Mike :-)

[@joyyoung3319]

Thank You Father Mike. God Bless You!

[@jasmintorino6129]

Magnanimous. I still remember the meaning of this word from my H.S. English class....it was assigned to me as part of our vocabulary lesson. Definitely has stuck with me ever since.

[@maysant2724]

@@fr.mikeschmitz7939 is a fake account!

[@adriannakastner2254]

father, I feel like in every one of your videos like God is speaking to me directly through you. what a gift God has given you in your speaking and your platform to educate Catholics! I love you keep up the awesome videos :)

[@choircats4226]

In the past I abused my talents to put others down instead of pointing them to God. I didn’t know it, but it was magnanimity which made me re-examine myself and throw that malice away. I now try my best to glorify God through my gifts. Peace to everyone🤍

[@lovelast4evergemma508]

Peace and Love to you too✝️✨🌹🕊️

[@JohnR.T.B.]

Humility, I think that is always greatest, but I am reminded of the Magnificat.

[@ajperez3537]

Thank you very much, Father! This is quite different to what some people come to sell you sometimes, that being humble and Saint is to reduce your possibilities to end up doing nothing in this life. I call these people "drug dealers", but many times the reason why people don't want you to do great things is because of envy, hate or fear linked to previous reasons. Thank you again for this lesson.

[@nemesisbianchie5181]

Thank you, father, from the deep of my heart 🙏

[@seattlesix]

I had thought this was the ‘nobility of the soul’ but now it’s more than that, thanks for filling the gaps

[@alciraproenza-collazo]

Love this video

[@PaulPaullus]

4:30 to 4:34-> That is why Mike Schmitz became Father Schmitz.

[@markey412]

To him much is given, much is also required.

[@lizzie5824]

Thank you father I see that i really had misappropriated in my mind humility and saw it in the wrong way.. also great example from the Bible is king David who was actually humble knowing God is great and he didn’t esteemed himself but God and by that won the great battle against the big enemy even as it seemed impossible 😊

[@Copolia]

Amen. Thank you Father Mike and thank you for your sermon last Sunday

[@julialopes5054]

Great video, Father! Thanks a lot! God bless you!

[@ElizabethAnnYang]

That was AWESOME. Thank you Fr. Mike.

[@randumgaming]

What a beautiful video, thank you Fr. Mike. My concern, especially as someone who suffers with mental illness like depression and anxiety, is that through those illnesses I've become habitually timid, and small, and I don't know how to recognize any "gifts" within myself. How can someone like myself even begin to see those, so I can try and start to let them grow and work towards glorifying God?

[@maryh7638]

I feel the same as you

[@BoomerAnn]

Perhaps you could join a support group where you talk about them and get the feedback you need to help you figure out what they are. Or if you have any close friends who are honest with you who could help you figure it out. Or you could sit and meditate on your possible potentials for awhile, and if you think you hit on a possibility, then give it a try. For example if you draw and doodle and wonder if you could be a good artist, then practice more. If you write a little, like journaling, and you think maybe you could write a book, or even just an article for a magazine, then practice writing more. What were you good at when you were a child?

[@randumgaming]

@@BoomerAnn Great suggestions, Ann. I current work as a designer, but that's not going great so maybe I'm forcing something that isn't there haha I'll try and pray on them and see what comes up. Thank you!

[@randumgaming]

@@tearsofmina I genuinely do not.

[@Jhyzone]

I too suffer from mental illness and what I always pray to God is for him to remove any walls and blockages (spiritual or mental) that is causing the flow of His Love entering my Heart and Soul. I have to pray with great Faith and child like Trust that in this relationship/friendship with Him he can surpass through any walls in my life right now. Like when He entered the Upper Room where the Apostles were praying before Pentecost. When He is inside the Tabernacle/Temple of my Heart, I just rest there and let Him teach me/rest with me/play with me. This is what being with God looks like and let Him do the work He began in you. You may not know it but you are already using God’s gift. If you want to definitely know what these are specifically, it is between you and God and you can ask Him in prayer. I will pray for you.

[@dinareyes3379]

Thank you Fr Mike , it’s really good video and I learned so much. Praise the Lord Almighty 🙏🙏🙏

[@petergarcia8225]

I am great fan of the Almighty when I didn't believe at times he showed me that there are many ways and paths in life. All I have to believe is in him and I will find one.

[@UnionBlue-h8e]

The Mexican war was, as we have seen, a signal example of this resorting to might instead of right, and employing the strong arm of force to compel the surrender of a part of another country. It was a compound of the crime of the highway-man, who puts his pistol at your head, and cries, " Deliver, or die," and the truckling of the pedlar who trades in small wares, and chuckles over his hard-driven bargain after it is made. Never was there a finer opportunity for what might be called “national magnanimity”, than for the stronger power in this case to bear and forbear with the weaker one, and aid, not thwart it, in carrying out the experiment of republican institutions. -Abiel Livermore, war with Mexico reviewed

[@ChrisGBaker]

Wisdom! Thank you Father!

[@allparish]

So good!

[@le5314]

Love it! Thank you.

[@maysant2724]

Is a face account

[@maysant2724]

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[@monikarose6341]

Thank you for your teaching father Mike from london⛪️✊🏻❤️

[@chillcapybara137]

Thank you, father. God bless!

[@Wintersghost135]

My humility is truly great. I’m an extraordinarily humble person. I learned that from guardians of the galaxy. Great vid by the way - way to make us think and learn.

[@teriworry6595]

St Katherine Drexel pray for us and all the soles in purgatory

[@thecatholicchai8801]

Never heard the term pussilanimity before, thanks for sharing Father! And absolutely loved the mention of this quote: What we are is God's gift to us, what we become is our gift to God!

[@sisterjoannesuranni3546]

This is such a great video, that I had to watch it 3 times and then take notes on it...lot's to pray with...give God the glory!

[@kristenbrotemarkle7562]

This was amazing. Thank you Father!

[@antoniohiram_a.z.8946]

100! (Holy Spirit!)

[@petergarcia8225]

Exciting when we find ourselves through his gifts and words. Teacher, Healer and Savior.

[@Richie016]

progresing in faith with virtues like magnamity ensures availability to God's service.

[@ruthsandra1521]

Thank you so much, Fr. Mike! 🙌 I needed to hear this, I've been confusing humility with timidity way too often.

[@rikoesquivel]

Hi Father. I think that famous saying you mentioned at 7:09 is from the movie coach carter. Its says: our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frighten us. You playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people wont feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone.. and as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same as we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

[@catherinehewson3513]

I would say you have this virtue father Mike. God bless.

[@teriworry6595]

Holy Spirit give me the strength to be a saint and the wisdom not to offend God

[@meeowmeowXD]

Father Mike, thank you for this video. I really needed to hear this.

[@ingridluna1165]

This talk reminds me of the casting crown song-‘Nobody.’ Beautiful!

[@UnQuerubin]

Thank you Father.

[@jamestomson716]

Was bout to cheat on a test then i sad nahhhh after this

[@Donna-cc1kt]

❤️

[@Littlemermaid17]

That’s brilliant 🔥

[@dragonfruit6532]

Congratulations!

[@tomgnau]

Oh, hey, look, this is timely.

[@luciavillagomez6695]

Dear Father Mike, I’ve been contemplating about the concept of LONGANIMITY. and listening to you with MAGNAMINITY, it makes me think that these two are similar or go together, wouldn’t you agree? I’m fascinated with this two virtues and for sure want to practice them as best as possible with God Grace! ✨🔥✨🙏🏻

[@jesusdominguez5843]

Últimamente he estado orando y le he estado diciendo a Dios que no me gusta la mediocridad. Este video habla exactamente acerca de lo que he estado orando.

[@ronaleeah3419]

I'm almost done with St Faustina's Divine Mercy in my Soul. Exactly,this is the virtue that she has which is misunderstood by some. Her strong desire to be great for God's glory is selfless...🙏❤️❤️❤️

[@fr.andygutierrez5356]

Thank you, Father! Awesome explanation, and beautiful zeal :-)

[@awkwardanglican7474]

This has really helped me after a long time of wrestling. Thank you so much.

[@Kristiehornbuckle]

very nice! Thank you

[@oonwing]

I do try, " JESUS COME WITH ME", Everyday, Father, I do try.

[@Donna-cc1kt]

💕👍🏻

[@marie-rienne]

Amazing !

[@wms72]

Please pray that i overcome my horrible uncharacteristic crushing timidity. Thank you.

[@giarose6493]

💯💯💯

[@jenniferbroussard3393]

St. Katherine Drexel founded St. Edwards school in Louisiana that I attended 46 years ago and my son attended 8 years ago.

[@tinl8128]

Hi Fr Mike! Thank you for your videos! God bless you and your life mission. Will request for a video/s on single parenthood-motherhood please? I am one who has never been married but have 2 boys. Life and responsibilities bring me down at times and I try to rise back up and be joyful! And I want to bring souls back to the Lord despite my past - ‘scandal.’ Thank you...

[@maysant2724]

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